Why must you turn this forum into a house of lies!?

I'm curious as to how they'll deal with depletion of their 256 bit UUIDs and/or spoofing or anything else. We can know is that Google (and others) will have a way that works across IP addresses that will provide a fairly unique way of identifying you no matter what. Presumably some browsers will let you change it or have it different in privacy mode or whatever, but like with Don't Track we'll can almost guarentee that even if there is a standard some other company like Microsoft will implement it just differently enough to make a lot of it pointless... other than the connection speed I guess.

People are already gungho about this, some thinking that it's a total replacement for the TCP stack which is utterly stupid. I first read about this in mid 2017 and noticed it seemed to be sort of a spin on MinimaLT which was specified to deal with mobile IP (as in protocol, not address) issues.

@dyasny said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:

A recruiter wants to get a 1:1 with a candidate, much like a used car salesman. Facing a forum of people with all the communications public is detrimental to his job, much like if you go into a used car dealership with 20 friends backing you up, all the salespeople's tricks go down the drain.

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As a Java programmer for around 20 years might I suggest a good IDE and the best I've ever used, hands down is Intellij IDEA (if you can't afford it after your trial ends, message me and I have a volume license and I'll hook you up if you're serious about Java), it's extremely good at automatic code analysis, suggestion, etc. There's also Eclipse, but it's not as great but many people suggest it. Certainly don't use something like Sublime, you'll spend 10x longer trying to debug stuff or figure out what you're doing as your project gets larger even though fan boys will tell you this doesn't happen to them.

I might also suggest that as you get better, take into account the vast, vast, VAST improvements made in Java 10 and beyond, because much of what you'll find out there is written for Java 1.x, 2, etc so some of the cooler built in libraries, syntactic sugar, etc are simply not even talked about.

Overall it's a fairly easy language, certainly easier than C++ which I have also done professionally but it is a bit more difficult than PHP or Perl.

That's all I have to add, above comments are all good sources of information and I'm willing to help with Java issues posted on this forum as well... so long as I see them.

@IRJ said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:

@tonyshowoff said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:

@flaxking said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:

Only the naturopath who actually qualified enough to be a real doctor would stand a chance.

A real doctor wouldn't believe in the banging-on-wood-like-cures-like-nonsense of homeopathy,

Prescription drugs are so much more profitable. A good percentage of them create side effects worse than what they are treating.

Not to mention that doctors get kick backs from drug companies like conferences that are 1 week where only a day or two is an actual conference. The rest of the week is the family staying at the resort.

It's easy to make fun of homeopathy, because we are trained to think we are so much smarter by using prescription drugs that create terrible side effects that are rarely just physical. They are many times mental as well. It just crates a never ending use another drug to treat this side effect.

I know prescription drugs help people who are very sick and offer help that natural meds can't. However, most illness isn't life threatening and can be handled other ways like diet. It's the people who run to the doctor for minor things who like get the terrible side effects.

Homeopathy isn't even natural medicine though, it's literally just water. The idea that:

1. "Like cures like" which is the indirect origin of the word homeopathy, which itself is Greek for "like-suffering", either of which concept are both ridiculous. You can't cure burns with bleach, but you can in homeopathy so long as you follow #2.
2. That the more diluted something is, the more powerful it is. That's what those 10x, 13x, etc on homeopathy labels mean, those are levels of dilution, and the process it's done by is even more close to magic than I think most people realise, because...
3. The way you dilute it is by putting your "like" chemical or typically flower or plant into water in a vial, then you bang it on a wooden plank a certain number of times, then you take a drop of that, put it into another vial, and then bang that, and you repeat the process until the dilution is so high that there's less than typically a single molecule of the original chemical/mineral/etc left.
4. The more diluted, how many Xs there are, is related to its power. So 13 times dilution is more powerful than 10 times dilution.

I'm willing to believe that there are natural cures from plants and other things, and certainly this must be true, but I can't possibly believe that the more you dilute something the more powerful it is. That's not just pseudoscience, that's stupidity, you don't make coffee or tea more caffeinated by making it 99.999% milk.... unless you bang it on wood first of course.

I don't think most followers of homeopathy are stupid themselves though because they don't know the process and if they did far less people would believe in it, but many who do still believe in it do so because they believe in "water memory" and other nonsense like "water can take the form of other chemicals and your body read them like data off a hard drive"... which makes me wonder why that's superior to the original chemical/mineral in the first place.

Our bodies are actually pretty good at healing themselves, sometimes in surprising and amazing ways that even surprise doctors, but the problem is that when people take or use homeopathic medicine they attribute just the inevitable healing done by their own bodies to homeopathy.

@flaxking said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:

Only the naturopath who actually qualified enough to be a real doctor would stand a chance.

A real doctor wouldn't believe in the banging-on-wood-like-cures-like-nonsense of homeopathy, but I imagine plenty of recruiters are just as full of crap as someone selling nothing but pure water maybe with lavender in it homeopathic "medicine", and do just as much research. Many years ago I had signed up with some service that was a placement service and a recruiter, and I told them repeatedly I did not know or want to know how to write programs in Pascal, yet they repeatedly called and told me they had a new job for me... in Pascal, COBOL, Assembly. I was never offered a job in any language I knew/was proficient in except once and when I interviewed they told me that they just "claimed [they] were looking for C++ programmers so that more people would show up for [their] PL/I interviews." That stupid company was AOL and they hired me anyway.

Maybe that logic extends to recruiters, they think if they just place someone who is expert in... Juniper or whatever in a Cisco oriented job then it'll magically work out, they don't know how ugly pine trees can possibly be used for networks anyway.*

*Because they don't realise Juniper is a networking company not plant

@scottalanmiller said in ML FavIcon:

I'm seeing it work kind of at random here.

Same here

Are there specific technology terrifs in those states that could have resulted in the extremely rich phone providers there?

@DustinB3403 said in MangoLassi Weekly Wrap Up 9 Nov 2018:

@JaredBusch said in MangoLassi Weekly Wrap Up 9 Nov 2018:

@tonyshowoff said in MangoLassi Weekly Wrap Up 9 Nov 2018:

@DustinB3403 said in MangoLassi Weekly Wrap Up 9 Nov 2018:

@tonyshowoff said in MangoLassi Weekly Wrap Up 9 Nov 2018:

@DustinB3403 said in MangoLassi Weekly Wrap Up 9 Nov 2018:

Which I walked him through in PM.

Boo! Way to drag down the SEO of the site broham!

Sometimes it is direct message is most important

You can provide any good explanation you want, I don't listen to anyone

You sound just like @DustinB3403

Funny I was going to say you sound just like Linus Torvalds.

@mlnews said in What Are You Drinking:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Drinking:

Always, Coca-Cola, yeah

Mexican coke!

I just realised too it's Pepsi, I just usually drink Coca-Cola, and so I'm just a liar it seems.